Drop-down lists in Microsoft Excel (and Word and Access) allow you to create a list of valid choices that you or others can select for a given field. This is especially useful for fields that require ...

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Visual Basic for Applications can make helpful items such as links appear on screen. You can open an external spreadsheet by clicking a link in an Excel spreadsheet. For instance, you might add an ...

Microsoft recently announced that they are adding a feature to Excel that will allow Python code to be embedded and used for advanced analytics. That made me wonder if it might be possible to create ...

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